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- The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken southern plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a drought in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region.
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Oct 27, 2009 · The Dust Bowl was a drought-stricken region in the southern plains of the United States that suffered severe dust storms in the 1930s. It was caused by a combination of federal land policies, agricultural practices, weather changes and economic factors that intensified the Great Depression.
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Jul 21, 2024 · Dust Bowl, both the drought period lasting from 1930 to 1936 in the U.S. Great Plains and the part of the Great Plains where overcultivation and drought resulted in the erosion of topsoil, which was carried off in windblown dust storms forcing thousands of families to leave the region during the Great Depression.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dust Bowl conditions fomented an exodus of the displaced from the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma Panhandle, and the surrounding Great Plains to adjacent regions. More than 500,000 Americans were left homeless. More than 350 houses had to be torn down after one storm alone.
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe drought and dust storms that affected the Great Plains from 1931 to 1939. This web page provides a chronology of events related to the Dust Bowl, from the causes and effects to the government responses and relief efforts.
- American Experience
Sep 14, 2023 · The Dust Bowl was a period of severe drought, wind erosion and economic depression in the U.S. Great Plains from 1931 to 1939. Learn how mechanized farming, poor agricultural practices and the Great Depression contributed to the ecological disaster and how the government responded with relief programs and conservation efforts.
- Maria Trimarchi
Nineteen states in the heartland of the United States became a vast dust bowl. With no chance of making a living, farm families abandoned their homes and land, fleeing westward to become migrant laborers.
DUST BOWL. The Dust Bowl period that occurred during the drought years of the 1930s represents a remarkable era in the settlement history of the West. From a climatic perspective, the 1930s drought is still considered to be the most severe on record for many parts of the Great Plains.
